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Hi Patsy and got to say I just love seeing home preserving going on and building up our pantries with gleened, cheaply or home grown produce. Well done it all looks wonderful :).

We are also hearing the popping of lids in our strawberry jam making too, oh happy days :).

Here is how we have built up our pantry up until yesterday -

- 1.215 kg of cherry tomatoes, 1.214 kg of beetroot and 400 g of carrots we used for juices saving $21.83 over purchasing them.- Harvested another 1.127 kg of cherry tomatoes from the gardens saving $11.27 over purchasing them.- Separated 46 g of French lavender and 28 g of English lavender saving $12.55 on usual prices. We traded these with a friend for some lge containers of natural homemade lip balms.- Picked and dried from the gardens we separated out 21g of marigold flowers (used for part trade for lip balms) and 319g of dried thyme saving us $41.96 over purchasing like for like organic in the shops.- On half price specials + 5% discount from using our roadside assist club discount gift card we got 1.5 kg of strawberries (on about $2 off per kilo), 24 tins of harvest long life meat and vegetables and 13 tins of spam as well as 4 free reusable bags saving $84.63 on usual prices.- Made 2.706 kg of jam in our bread making machine with some home picked strawberries and some purchased strawberries making 9 jars (we washed and reused some we had with pop tops) saving $17.19 over purchasing the same quality in the shops. The only equivalent is a French made one that costs an arm and a leg :).

You have been very busy. Great job. You sure will enjoy them this winter. I got some great sales at the grocery store this week because of 4th of July sales. Between coupons, sales and Ibotta I saved over $65 and I added lots to my pantry.

I got 2 pineapples and then the kids went to camp before anyone ate them. Since they were only 99c (unheard of price), I had purchased 2. I canned them into tiny jars to use for pizza, fried rice, etc. I got 8-1/2 pints. I love to can, too, and also love the popping of the jars.

I picked enough blueberries from our 2 bushes to make peach-blueberry jam. I used frozen peaches from last year for the 4 cups of peaches called for, but was delighted to get 4 cups of blueberries. I've frozen blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, but only a very few strawberries. I did do one batch of strawberry jam from frozen strawberries.

Becky, I love it when I have planned ahead for canning season by having things in the freezer that I can use to finish out a canning recipe! I recently did that with the sweet pickle relish I canned. For the onions in the recipe I used ones I had chopped and frozen last fall. It sure was a time saver!

Debbie, I'm sorry you have health issues that make canning difficult. Aren't we glad that canning is not the only option available to us when it comes to building up and maintaining a well-stocked pantry??

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